June 2nd, 2010 
molitva leyli 
Bugis and Makassar sailors exploring centuries-archipelago. With sailboats and simple navigation tools, based at the sun, the stars in the sky, even the smell of the mainland, they use wind to sail to Madagascar, near Africa, looking for sea cucumbers in Australia, long before the British sailor James Cook discovered the continent in 1770.
Up to now, with the boats pinisi, Sulawesi sailors still play a role in inter-islands transport shipping timber, rice, various other staples and grocery items. The masters of boats in the area of Tanjung Bira, Bulukuma, South Sulawesi, is still kept busy making pinisi boats and timber ships orders from all over homeland.
Travel from Makassar to Bulukumba, central wooden boat docks and boat in South Sulawesi, as far as 155 km is a special outing. Asphalt road winding through the hills, gardens and rice fields. The trees turn yellow and wither. Supposed to November dry season is over but the rain had also dropped. Expanse of paddy fields presents with dry patches of cracked land. Crack dry landscape with charm and unique beauty.
Entering the village of Tana Lemo, District Bontobahari, Bulukumba, lined up along the beach looking shipyards wooden boats and ships. Shipyards were hundreds of them, seemed so simple, built from blocks of wood with roofs of leaves coconut. Just protect the builders and their boats from the hot sun doing darn rain. That evening, the boat makers are busy working. Someone was sawing board or a block of wood, there are carve or drill wood to frame the boat body. Villagers generally handyman boat. Only few of them who work as fishermen or sailors, sailing across the sea.
In one part of the coastline length of about six miles seemed a large timber ship being launched into the sea. Andi Sultan (43) along with 15 builders have completed a timber ship was the size of 700 tons. Already one year master’s wooden boats and ship-builder with the carpenters build the ship. In a few weeks away timber ships which cost USD 2 billion included for buying the machine that it will begin first shipping. Day ship began sliding into the sea. Several finishes, such as decks and interior trim done when the ship was in the sea. Need more time to floated shift the ship several weeks from the shipyard to sea. Andi Sultan, Agrarian Academy graduate and former civil servants of this land sector began to make wooden boats and ships since 1996. His expertise makes the boat was obtained from his parent.
According to Andi Sultan, which he built the ship that took elements of the Bugis, Javanese and European. “List and the windows are typical of the Bugis, the contours and engravings on the interior of Java, while there are features of this part of Europe behind the ship,” he told reporters that in addition to learning from his father, he also studied the shipping books to determine the model of a boat or ship. Ship Completes he had just had six rooms on the second floor each with a bathroom sendiri.Ruang for skippers on the ground floor adjacent to the wheelhouse.
A masters of other boats in the Tana Lemo is Nambu Ridwan (50). He’s already started to build wooden boats and ships since 1977. He recently completed a timber ship weighing 350 tons is done during the eight months. At least seven metercubic spent on agency and wood deck built to catch shrimp and sea cucumber.
Various shapes and carving wooden boats or ships are being built on the beach Tana Lemo. There pinisi, fishing vessels and passenger ships and goods for shipping inter-island. Wind rustling sea of coconut trees, the sound of hammers, saws drawstring or as if she never broke like waves that never stopped at the beach Tana Lemo. The masters and their builders to keep working, keep making boats and ships because that’s their talent and expertise. That’s the passion of the boat makers who establish the belief that the nation was not just a champion of maritime sailing ships, but also skilled at making.
When a boat or ship completed, the village of Tana Lemo even though a large crowd launched into their work. Almost all the male villagers involved the launch of the ship from the shipyard to sea. That morning, after spending the night in the village of Tana Lemo beach, it seems dozens of men had gathered at the shipyard owned by Andi Sultan. The ship was doing in the water ready to be shifted again. Pleading prayer preceded the ease and power of the creator, the ship weighed 700 tons were being moved again by dozens of people. With a cue from the masters and artisans, inch by inch with a pulley that ship left the shipyard is shifted into the sand beach.
That piece of the story from Tana Lemo, the village masters and ship pinisi boat maker in the Tanjung Bira, Bulukumba. Their works still continue to sail the oceans of the world’s largest archipelagic country is.
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